Short Fiction
Xavier de Maistre, 1794
An officer under house arrest tours his bedroom as if it were a continent, finding the stars, his dog and the whole human comedy inside four walls.
Xavier de Maistre
1763–1852
He was the younger brother of Joseph de Maistre, the celebrated philosopher of reaction — the family's famous name belonged to someone else.
Feels like tenderness, solitude and wonder.
Every attempt to make mankind happy has failed. One dog has not.
Man’s nature is such, that happiness appears to be a thing unattainable; unconsciously and unintentionally friend offends friend, and even lovers inevitably fall out and quarrel at times. And since all legislators, from Lycurgus down to those of today, in their attempts to bestow happiness on mankind have failed miserably, I can at least comfort myself greatly with the thought of having made even one dog happy. Books by Xavier de Maistre
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